Courses

Advanced Medical Nutrition Therapy
Complete resource needed by clinicians for review and update of acute-based MNT skills and knowledge. The text uses practice-oriented, case-based approach and evidence-based nutrition care plans. Advanced MNT begins with core concepts relating to assessments, as well as EN/PN nutrition, and then goes into specific disease states and specific needs for pediatric through elder care. Each book also offers an eBook version for download.

AND Pocket Guide to Bariatric Surgery
Fully updated 3rd edition! It covers the newest evidence-based research in metabolic and bariatric surgery. Additional content includes new nutrition counseling and educational tools, reviews of more liberal diet progression, and new procedures like anastomosis, endoscopic therapies, and biliopancreatic diversion. The Academy also offers 7 CPE hours for buying the book.

Cannabis Is Medicine
The endocannabinoid system is one of the most essential regulatory systems in the body. The author is a well-respected clinician with over 13 years of cannabis clinical experience.

Cannabis: A Clinician's Guide
Next Step Clinical Course
Written for clinicians, this book helps you understand the endocannabinoid system in the body, plus efficacy, dosing, regulations. Includes use for neurological disorders, cancer, CV, liver function, mood disorders, and palliative care. Most recent research.

CBD 2021: Guide to Medicinal Cannabis
Excellent resource! Leinow has three decades of experience growing and studying medical cannabis. Considering the growing interest in this plant and its medicinal properties, including as an alternative to opioids for pain, we need to educate ourselves.

Clinical Environmental Medicine
This fascinating book was written by two icons in Natural Medicine. It covers the evidence-based research that shows the interconnectedness of chemicals in our environment, our food supply, and diseases. J of Pediatrics estimates 180+ toxic chemicals in the blood of newborns. Best, most comprehensive book on toxins interacting with humans and food we could find.

Communicating Nutrition
Practitioners at all levels of experience will find communication pearls to succeed in this book covering social media, online marketing, media interviews, videos, publishing, speaking, negotiating, addressing misinformation and much more. The Academy offers an additional 14 CPE hours for book buyers.

Complementary & Integrative Treatments in Psychiatric Practice
Evidence-based book with integrative and nutritional treatments for people with depression, anxiety, bipolar, trauma, PTSD, and other disorders. For all practitioners, especially in the VA, group homes, and psychiatric settings with children, teens and adults.

Cultural Food Practices
Written by members of the Diabetes DPG. With the incidence of diabetes growing and our demographics changing, healthcare practitioners will need more competence in working with various cultures. This interesting book covers 15 different cultures.

End of Life Nutrition, 3rd Edition
Insightful, updated monograph on nutrition intervention in the hospice, long-term care, and home settings. Discussion is on ethics, culture, providing emotional support, patient’s last wishes, palliative nutrition care, and what to expect as a person dies.

Fertility
This book is unique because it explores the latest fertility research for men and women! Written by Clare Fleishman, MS, RDN, author of the popular book, Globesity. This course is a comprehensive review of hundreds of evidence-based studies on fertility and how to improve it through nutrition and other lifestyle choices. Excellent book for nutrition and health counselors.

Fiber Fueled
New York Times Bestseller! This book is thought provoking, fresh, and approachable. It covers the newest evidence-based research that challenges popular keto and paleo diets and their research findings. There are no guilt trips or hard lines drawn in the sand.

Food Fix
An interesting look at our food and agriculture systems in the U.S.—and how they influence chronic disease. What we eat, Federal guidelines, and the current Farm Bill have tremendous implications on our health.

Gastrointestinal Nutrition 2020
Fantastic resource! This reference covers everything a RDN needs to know about the gastrointestinal tract, including its anatomy, diagnostic methods, disease symptoms, and variations, as well as effects of diet and maintaining adequate nutrition. Very informative and fascinating! Best, most comprehensive book on nutrition and the gut we could find.

Gluten Free Diet
This book is a must-have for any health practitioner working with patients with celiac disease or gluten-sensitivity. It contains evidence-based research and hundreds of gluten-free resources. Shelley has been a popular speaker at the Academy’s annual convention. This is a myth-dispelling, easy to read, and comprehensive book on what we need to know and how to live with the diagnosis.

Guide to Drug Food Interactions
Excellent resource full of clinical pearls! The book is a detailed guide on 500 of the most prescribed drugs and their influence on or by foods. Medications can contribute to nutritional deficiencies, and foods can alter the absorption of many drugs.

Handbook of Nutrition and the Kidney, 7th Edition
Next Step Clinical Course
In-depth research and nutrition therapies for patients with chronic kidney disease, hemodialysis, peritoneal, and kidney transplants. We have carried this book since the 5th ed.—very popular with the experienced practitioner. Each book purchase has an eBook download.

Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating 2021
Written by a family doctor specializing in childhood feeding and a speech pathologist, they teach counselors how to help families assure a child’s healthy nutrition and growth, while ending mealtime anxiety and stress.

Herbal Antibiotics 2020
Antibiotic-resistant infections are alarmingly on the rise in the U.S. Buhner explains the roots of antibiotic resistance, explores herbal treatments, and provides in-depth profiles of 30 valuable herbs, noting their antibiotic properties, dosages, and potential side effects.

Herbal Antivirals
Viruses are mutating and becoming resistant to antiviral pharmaceuticals. Global crises and pandemics are happening faster than we can develop medicines to fight them. One answer used for millennia is to make the person’s immune system stronger and less receptive to catching a virus or using certain herbs to fight the spread and severity of the virus.